| Description |
143 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The health of Captains -- Poem for my twenty-ninth birthday -- Elegy -- Elegy just in case -- Sea burial -- V-J day -- On a photo of Sgt. Ciardi a year later -- Two songs for a gunner -- The lamb -- The evil eye -- My father's watch -- Mystic river -- Elegy -- Home revisited: Midnight -- Days -- Elegy for Sandro -- Thursday -- A variation on some lines -- Survival in Missouri -- To my father -- Three views of a mother -- Poem for my thirty-ninth birthday -- Doctor Faustus -- Child Horvald to the dark tower came -- A box comes home -- Newsreel -- At a concert of music, remembering the dead in Korea -- A thought about Shiek Bedreddin -- The convert -- In the witch-hunting season -- Kristóffer Second -- Elegy for G.B. Shaw -- The invasion of the sleep walkers -- I thanked the lunatic for a particular view -- Lines for Woodlawn -- Temptation -- Flowering Quince -- Sunday morning -- Measurements -- Annals -- Fragment of a bas relief -- Carlo Crivelli muses before a Madonna -- Two egrets -- On the birth of Jeffrey to William and Barbara Harding -- Laing's goat -- The size of a universe -- Thoughts on looking into a thicket -- A sermon beginning with the portrait of a man -- On looking East to the sea with a sunset behind me -- Landscapes of my name -- Chorus -- A visit to Aunt Francesca -- March morning -- Gulls from a fantail -- The cow -- Elegy for Jog -- Domesticity -- Lines while walking home from a party on Charles Street -- Cezanne -- A shore, half in a dream -- Fragments from Italy -- Gray sand, black stone, steel water, and figures -- Naples. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Author |
Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ciardi, John, 1916-1986. As if. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1955 (OCoLC)568764842 |
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